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Get To Know Your State's Open Container Laws

Drinking and driving is illegal and dangerous. You know this. But what about having an adult beverage present in your car while driving? Well, that becomes a little more complicated.

The TEA-21 Act prohibits the consumption or possession of alcoholic beverages in a vehicle while driving. But many states don't comply with the law, or enforce a more extreme version of it. Needless to say, this is the kind of thing you might want to familiarize with, lest you get fined for someone holding a beer in the backseat.

Study up: Hands on the Wheel: Get To Know Your State's Open Container Laws.